Claude Witherington Stump FRSE (28 October 1891 – 23 December 1971) was an Australian embryologist who served in two wars.
[1] He was born at Austral Terrace in Malvern near Adelaide on 28 October 1891, the second child of Alfred Augustus Stump a well-known Tasmanian photographer, by his second wife, Rosa Ada Potter.
[4][5] He fought at Loos and on the Somme, then in 1916 he returned to Edinburgh to complete his degree, graduating with an MB ChB in 1917.
In the same year he won the Gunning Victoria jubilee prize for his MD thesis "Histogenesis of the Bone".
His proposers were Arthur Robinson, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, James Lorrain Smith and Charles George Lambie.